Nevada County picayune., 1887-05-11
4 POOR BOY WHO IS RICH.

of the money that men spend fool ishly that they worse than throw away this Saturday night-what an amount of good we could accom- pljSh with it. Here in this great and beautiful city are fifteen thouS. and places furnished better than are ordinary homes, where boys and men are lured to spend their time, their health, their money and themselves, not in recreation that is necessary, but in dissipation that leads up 10 exceed, and to the disintegration of mans capacity for happiness or usefulness. In each of these places more of earned money is wasted by those who earned it, than is saved for use the coming week.
 What would We do with this mon. ey that could be saved from waste? We would buy land. erect large building that would serve us an iu- telligence office, and supply hall that would seat 1000 persons. Ev cry night of the week and of the year, 1t would be open at five or ten cents admission to the poor men, women and children, who for the price of a glass of beer could listen 10 concerts of sweet. clean restful music, and to illustrated and other lectures on art, sciences, me- chanics, inventions and past histO. ry, present conventions and future prospects and ways that are open to success and failure, as men are educated to walk therein. Oh, the good seed that We could SOW. Never mind the harvest-sow the seed. If is good, God and the good angels will take care of the harvest, to the credit of the sow CTS.
 We could buy thousands of tons of coal tor the ones whom a so- called Christian society rObs and reduces to the heavy air of novels and horrid homes that humanity is reduced to in the unequal struggle. We could buy stockings and shoes, and clothes and food, and comforts for the young and helpless who suffer far more than they beg. We could loan money to the poor at low rates of interest so that the heart and happiness away from those who slip and lose their foot. ing. We could make humanity happier and better, and thus prove to the world that our kinShip Is with those who are of the upper and the better world, and not with those who drag others down in or der 10 help themselves up to high CT places to fall from.
 To-day there came to our sane tum poor man who with tears m his eyes, and with voice broken, asked tor work, or, If it could not be had, for charity. Not for him self. but for his wife, who like him self was going from door to door, seeking employment, but for whom there is no bread except of chari- ty.
 "Where did you come from!"
 "Bohemia.'
 "Why do yol not workW
 Give weeks ago, without warn. ing, was discharged, and since that cannot work"
 "Discharged! For what reasons
 My employer failed. A Sheriff took possession of the shop. Four days wages are due me, but l can get nothing try, and try, and try, ali day long, but can find no work Every place is full-but the riveri"
 Do you drink liquorsm
 "No, never. l am temperance man.
 Have you tried the temperance leaders in this city"
 "Ies, but they are too busy to talk with me, and tell me to move on."
 "We have no employment for you, but here is enough to get your. self and family supper tonight
 "Oh, thanks It is the first money l have had in three days and nothing to eat except food given me; that 1 have carried in my pockets to my children"
 "Wcll, don't give up. Go to all the offices in the bnilding, and be- fore lea wing you win be helped out of yonr trouble"